KiCad

Garbled Netname after adding pin

Bug #1829301 reported by Seth Hillbrand on 2019-05-15

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	KiCad	Fix Committed	Medium	Jon Evans	KiCad 6.0.0-rc1

Bug Description

I'm attaching a project that I have recently changed by adding a new pin to the schematic (copy/paste from J2).

In the current state, the new pin is not annotated (J?) and has not be added to the pcb.

If you annotate and then update the PCB, the pin's netname will be garbled "Net-(J?1557958666-Pad1)" on my machine. This looks like uninitialized variable, so it's probably different elsewhere. But the upshot is that the netname doesn't get set nicely for unannotated pins. It could have chosen R14-Pad1 or U1-Pad7. Or, they could just be named sequentially when the pins are unannotated.

Then, after annotation, the netname should be updated as J? doesn't exist anymore.

Closing and re-opening eeschema causes the update the work properly.

Application: KiCad
Version: (5.1.0-573-ga670b360e-dirty), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.36.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.67.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.64.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON